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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Cameo-embossed gilt, die-cut paper of a scene featuring a watermill on the right and an oval window with scalloped edge on the left. The window contains a panel of white silk embroidered with pink roses and a scroll with the verse: 'WITH ITS MODEST VEIL / SAYS TRUTH IN LOVE / WILL E'ER PREVAIL'. The gilt paper is decorated with chromolithographed scraps of pink roses at upper and lower right and a garland of forget-me-nots at centre left. A scrap of a young girl wearing a pink dress is affixed on a paper spring at the centre. The gilt paper is mounted with paper springs onto a white embossed lace paper front, which is adhered to the back paper. A hand-written inscription on the album leaf to the right: '4/6'. This price was presumably transcribed from the verso of the valentine before it was mounted into the album.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1870
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Circa
1880
Applied textile
Chromolithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14417-R-69
Primary reference Number: 215298
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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